Don Fischer
06-28-2009, 05:35 PM
My first trip was a number of years ago. My wife and I got there the end of May right after a bad storm and the water was really bad. Didn't do much. That trip we went in thru Richland.
Friday I left with my son to Huntington and got there Friday evening. For those of you that haven't been there, Marie's is the liquor store. They sell fishing stuff and bait, nice guy was there when we got there.
We got several bags of Morman Crickets, nasty looking suckers! Also told by the guy to go up to the old cemetary, 15mi up the river road out of town. Lot of room to camp there and even a tree with shade! I fished with shrimp and got the first cat shortly after getting there, Dennis used the crickets and struck out Fri night. My second hit was a slam. No tap tap and take it, simply boom and off! I was using a new reel and thought I'd set the drag befor leaving hime, didn't. Fish got close the shore and headed for the Idaho side snapping my 8# line! That was it for
Fri.
Back at the store we were told it was slow, something about letting water out then pumping more water in. Well Sat morning my son stole my spot and got three really nice one's, 3 to 4 pounds each. Then the bite all but quit till early afternoon when he got one more small one. Small, about 12" about as big as any I'd caught up till then. He injured it getting the hook out so he kept it. That was it, no more fish but we had a great time.
Sunday morning a boat in the bass tourney was fishing there and the guy's told us we should fish the morman cricket's about 3' under a bobber for the cats? Really? The ones we did get we got in deep water on the bottom.
Couple questions for you guiys that fish cats there. Does the draw down of the resivour and refilling it really turn off the bite? And do you guys use the crickets under a bobber? Oh, one more question. Seemed most people were fishing for crappie. What's the deal with them? I just can't imagine catching a hundred 8" fish and cleaning them and having much to eat. Are they really that good?
Didn't see but one snake, my son ran it over going in. But we were prepared, he stopped in Redmond and got a couple boxes of 38 Spec shot cartridges. I took along my own 38 with a bunch of 155 gr cast HP's for them. My big phobeia is snakes and after having a dog bite by a rattler last year it's worse. Well didn't find any other's so took the dogs for a walk several times. They loved it. Didn't find any birds though. Saw a chukar on the way in and one on the way out. Not so good. Bodie discovered water and decided he really likes it, Squirt thinks it's ok but shouldn't swim in it!
Had a great time so plan on going back to Richland with my boat in Sept to fish the Powder River arm for cats. Taking only steelhead rods, think they would tear up to light a rod. 8# Stren on one and 15# braid on the other. They are really Walleye rods because I don't fish for steelhead. They should clean that trash out of the water so we can catch fish worth eating!:D
Friday I left with my son to Huntington and got there Friday evening. For those of you that haven't been there, Marie's is the liquor store. They sell fishing stuff and bait, nice guy was there when we got there.
We got several bags of Morman Crickets, nasty looking suckers! Also told by the guy to go up to the old cemetary, 15mi up the river road out of town. Lot of room to camp there and even a tree with shade! I fished with shrimp and got the first cat shortly after getting there, Dennis used the crickets and struck out Fri night. My second hit was a slam. No tap tap and take it, simply boom and off! I was using a new reel and thought I'd set the drag befor leaving hime, didn't. Fish got close the shore and headed for the Idaho side snapping my 8# line! That was it for
Fri.
Back at the store we were told it was slow, something about letting water out then pumping more water in. Well Sat morning my son stole my spot and got three really nice one's, 3 to 4 pounds each. Then the bite all but quit till early afternoon when he got one more small one. Small, about 12" about as big as any I'd caught up till then. He injured it getting the hook out so he kept it. That was it, no more fish but we had a great time.
Sunday morning a boat in the bass tourney was fishing there and the guy's told us we should fish the morman cricket's about 3' under a bobber for the cats? Really? The ones we did get we got in deep water on the bottom.
Couple questions for you guiys that fish cats there. Does the draw down of the resivour and refilling it really turn off the bite? And do you guys use the crickets under a bobber? Oh, one more question. Seemed most people were fishing for crappie. What's the deal with them? I just can't imagine catching a hundred 8" fish and cleaning them and having much to eat. Are they really that good?
Didn't see but one snake, my son ran it over going in. But we were prepared, he stopped in Redmond and got a couple boxes of 38 Spec shot cartridges. I took along my own 38 with a bunch of 155 gr cast HP's for them. My big phobeia is snakes and after having a dog bite by a rattler last year it's worse. Well didn't find any other's so took the dogs for a walk several times. They loved it. Didn't find any birds though. Saw a chukar on the way in and one on the way out. Not so good. Bodie discovered water and decided he really likes it, Squirt thinks it's ok but shouldn't swim in it!
Had a great time so plan on going back to Richland with my boat in Sept to fish the Powder River arm for cats. Taking only steelhead rods, think they would tear up to light a rod. 8# Stren on one and 15# braid on the other. They are really Walleye rods because I don't fish for steelhead. They should clean that trash out of the water so we can catch fish worth eating!:D